Concert Review : Tomb Mold with Of Feather And Bone

Hello guys it's your boi Ty here and today I will be doing yet another concert review for you guys! I had a blast at this show and this show was absolutely insane! As usual i will be breaking down the bands as the sets ran from Opener to Headliner ; and I'll be talking about the merch I scooped up from this badass show. This show was at a super wicked and small venue called Atlas Brew Works in Washington DC and was only 12 dollars to get in. So lets get onto the music shall we!

Ilsa:

Ilsa is a Doom Metal band hailing straight from Washington DC. Ilsa really took me by surprise to be honest. This is a band I've never heard of and I wasn't super excited to see them, But they put on an excellent show! These guys mixed that super buzzy doom metal sound with some of the vocal stylings of The Body and Thou. The set was super loud and was very riff driven. If you like shit like Windhand and Thou please jesus check these guys out! The only thing that sorta brought them down was the lack of a stage presence but they made up for that with killer riffs and very sick tunes. You can check out Ilsa at Relapse Records I believe they do also have a Bandcamp (I can be wrong).

Rating: 8/10

ILSA - Long Lost Friend (Official Audio)

Outer Heaven:

Up next was Outer Heaven which was a band I was familiar with name wise but not music wise. And wow did they steal this show guys! Awesome presence, fucking killer and raw ass riffs, badass guttural vocals. What else needs to be said! The singer was super rowdy and was shoving people and losing his shit as some of these dark and brooding riffs hit. This is what Ilsa missed and lacked,the badass stage presence that these guys had. Even though they seemed fucking crazy on stage they were all super nice guys and will be releasing their first Full Length album in the Fall! If you like dirty and pounding death metal please jesus check out Outer Heaven! They are on Spotify and Bandcamp.

Rating: 9/10

OUTER HEAVEN - Into Hellfire (Official Music Video)

Of Feather And Bone :

Of Feather And Bone has gained a shit ton of popularity in the Death Metal scene recently with their 2018 album Bestial Hymns Of Perversion. And these guys do deserve the credit the record was fucking amazing so do check it out! Their live show was pretty solid but a few things did lack and kill the performance but lets discuss the positives before the negatives shall we. These guys had Dual vocalist which was pretty well mixed between the two. I liked how one vocal style was not overdone and the main focus and i like the change ups. Some of the riffs and rhythm changes were super badass and got people headbanging. So what were the negatives? The drums were tuned way too low in my opinion. The only part of the drums I could hear is the Highhat and the Snare. Now this didn't murder the set but when you obsessively hear a snare for 20 minutes doing the same blast beat pattern it got abit exessive. Now do the negatives outweigh the positives? Hell no they don't they still slayed and even with the drums all weird out on a badass set!

Rating: 8/10

OF FEATHER AND BONE - Lust For Torment (official audio)

Tomb Mold :

Tomb Mold was my main reason to go to this show and I was super stoked for them. Tomb Mold has boomed recently with some killer death metal releases! Tomb Mold delivered on all cylinders at this show guys! Super dirty live sound with some classic OSDM riffing it slayed. Plenty of windmill moments for me at the show due to the speedy riffs and dirty vocals. The set flew by though and it did seem super short mainly due to the song length differences between all the bands. I really love the Autopsy vibe you get from Tomb Mold the vocals are almost more of a bark than a super guttural vocal style. Tomb Mold also had a few slightly melodic sections in some of their tunes which was for sure not prevalent in any of the previous acts. Which made them stand out and they had a solo which was a first for the show at that point. So Tomb Mold destroyed and it was a very good time! If you wanna check em out they are everywhere Spotify, Bandcamp, Etc...

Rating: 8.5/10

TOMB MOLD - Abysswalker (From 'Manor Of Infinite Forms' LP 2018)

The Merch! :

The merch for this show was super cheap which was badass and i got some pretty wicked stuff for pretty cheap!

Outer Heaven Shirt

Outer Heaven Vinyl

Ilsa Vinyl

Ilsa CD

I did not get any Of Feather And Bone Merch or Tomb Mold merch due to the lack of the cooler shirts being in my size.

Conclusion:

Thank you guys for reading this review i decided to do this badboy last minute so i hope it turned out ok! There will be plenty more reviews in the future for sure and of course other blogs from time to time :D!